Zhongxin Liu
Distinguished Research Fellow
Develops AI4SE techniques that learn from software data to help developers understand, write, change and test code.
Zhongxin Liu's lab at Zhejiang works in Machine Learning. 66 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly FSE and EMNLP. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 17/ year
- at T1 venues
- 9%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 28 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 1
- 13 papers2024 · T1 0
- 9 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: FSE, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- code38 papers
- change3 papers
- help0 papers
- techniques0 papers
- understand0 papers
Paper list
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202628 papers
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI[AAAI’26] Intention Chain-of-Thought Prompting with Dynamic Routing for Code Generation
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Main Conference (ACL[ACL’26] DeepGuard: Secure Code Generation via Multi-Layer Semantic Aggregation
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Main Conference (ACL[ACL’26] ExecVerify: White-Box RL with Verifiable Stepwise Rewards for Code Execution Reasoning
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Main Conference (ACL[ACL’26] ReCode: Reinforcing Code Generation with Reasoning-Process Rewards
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’26] Doc2Feat-bench: Evaluating Documentation-Driven Feature Addition
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’26] Effective and Efficient Context Retrieval via Partial Dependency Graph for Repository-Level Code Generation
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’26] MultiKernelBench: A Multi-Platform Benchmark for Kernel Generation
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’26] RealisticTritonBench: A Benchmark for Triton-Kernel Generation in Real-World AI Frameworks
- EMNLP (T1)[EMNLP’26] Branch Later, Compute Less, Think Better: Adaptive Depth Parallelism for Efficient Parallel Prefix-Tuning
- Empirical Software Engineering[EMSE’26] Can Test Cases Generated by Large Language Models Facilitate Automated Program Repair?
- FSE (T1)[FSE’26] Balancing Latency and Accuracy of Code Completion via Local-Cloud Model Cascading
- FSE (T1)[FSE’26] iCoRe: An Iterative Correlation-Aware Retriever for Bug Reproduction Test Generation
202516 papers
- Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics[ACL’25] SEK: Self-Explained Keywords Empower Large Language Models for Code Generation
- Proceedings of the Asia-pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC[APSEC’25] SQLWizard: A Tool for Robust Text-to-SQL via Intelligent Selection and Fine-Grained Refinement
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’25] FGIT: Fault-Guided Fine-Tuning for Code Generation
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’25] Issue Localization via LLM-Driven Iterative Code Graph Searching
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’25] PEACE: Towards Efficient Project-Level Efficiency Optimization via Hybrid Code Editing
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’25] SolContractEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Contract-Level Solidity Code Generation
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’25] Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement
- FSE (T1)[FSE’25] Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Code Search without Fine-Tuning
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA[ISSTA’25] LLM4SZZ: Enhancing SZZ Algorithm with Context-Enhanced Assessment on Large Language Models
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS[NeurIPS’25] Parallel Scaling Law for Language Models
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)[TOSEM’25] Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks
- TOSEM[TOSEM’25] On-the-Fly Generation-Quality Enhancement of Deep Code Models via Model Collaboration
202413 papers
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL[ACL’24] JumpCoder: Go beyond Autoregressive Coder via Online Modification
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’24] B4: Towards Optimal Assessment of Plausible Code Solutions with Plausible Tests
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’24] Instructive Code Retriever: Learn from Large Language Model's Feedback for Code Intelligence Tasks
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC[ICPC’24] Exploring and Improving Code Completion for Test Code
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE[ICSE’24] Pre-Training by Predicting Program Dependencies for Vulnerability Analysis Tasks
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME[ICSME’24] Improving Retrieval-Augmented Code Comment Generation by Retrieving for Generation
- Proceedings of the Asia-pacific Symposium on Internetware (INTERNETWARE[Internetware’24] Inside Bug Report Templates: An Empirical Study on Bug Report Templates in Open-Source Software
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA[ISSTA’24] Automating Zero-Shot Patch Porting for Hard Forks
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA[ISSTA’24] CoSec: On-the-fly Security Hardening of Code Llms via Supervised Co-Decoding
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER[SANER’24] Sustainability Forecasting for Deep Learning Packages
- TOSEM[TOSEM’24] Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing
- TSE[TSE’24] Method-Level Test-to-Code Traceability Link Construction by Semantic Correlation Learning
20239 papers
- Proceedings of the Asia-pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC[APSEC’23] Improving Code Refinement for Code Review via Input Reconstruction and Ensemble Learning
- Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE[ASE’23] Identify and Update Test Cases When Production Code Changes: A Transformer-Based Approach
- Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE[FSE’23] CCT5: A Code-Change-Oriented Pre-Trained Model
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE[ICSE’23] CCRep: Learning Code Change Representations via Pre-Trained Code Model and Query Back
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA[ISSTA’23] Towards More Realistic Evaluation for Neural Test Oracle Generation
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)[TOSEM’23] Revisiting the Identification of the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)[TSE’22] Predictive Comment Updating With Heuristics and AST-Path-Based Neural Learning: A Two-Phase Approach
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)[TSE’23] Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)[TSE’23] Vulnerability Detection by Learning from Syntax-Based Execution Paths of Code
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